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Climate change threatens European conservation areas

  1. Miguel B. Araújo1,2,†,*,
  2. Diogo Alagador1,3,†,
  3. Mar Cabeza1,4,
  4. David Nogués-Bravo1,5,
  5. Wilfried Thuiller6

Article first published online: 30 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01610.x

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Ecology Letters

Ecology Letters

Volume 14, Issue 5, pages 484–492, May 2011

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Araújo, M. B., Alagador, D., Cabeza, M., Nogués-Bravo, D. and Thuiller, W. (2011), Climate change threatens European conservation areas. Ecology Letters, 14: 484–492. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01610.x

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  1. 1

    Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, 28006, Madrid, Spain

  2. 2

    Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, CIBIO, University of Évora, Largo dos Colegiais, 7000 Évora, Portugal

  3. 3

    Forest Research Centre, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal

  4. 4

    Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 1, 00014, Finland

  5. 5

    Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Denmark

  6. 6

    Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, UMR-CNRS 5553, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*E-mail: maraujo@mncn.csic.es

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Issue published online: 11 APR 2011
  2. Article first published online: 30 MAR 2011
  3. Editor, Lauren Buckley Manuscript received 2 November 2010 First decision made 10 December 2010 Second decision made 9 February 2011 Manuscript accepted 18 February 2011

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